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Questions posed by a movement

Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on October 4, 2022 by RUPE (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Oct 08, 2022)

“These are all poor Adivasi villagers who take time off from their daily-wage labour or farming, students who come when school permits, or women who bring their children because they have nowhere else to leave them. On down days the numbers may be a few dozen, on special days the number swells to thousands.”
Fall-out of the Ukraine conflict on India’s economy

Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on April 18, 2022 (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.))

The Problem Is Actually At Home
The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 3)

Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on February 6, 2021 (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Feb 12, 2021)

The story of Mexico’s agriculture can be organised around two threads: corn and land.
The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 2)

Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on February 3, 2021 (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Feb 10, 2021)

In the previous part of this article we saw that the Indian rulers are actively preparing the legal groundwork for parting peasants from their land. In the following part we place this in an international context.
The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 1)

Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on January 26, 2021 (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Feb 10, 2021)

The protesting kisans on the borders of Delhi repeat one thing over and over: When fighting against the three farm-related Acts, they are fighting to save their land.